A paranoid drug addict high on a cocktail of cocaine, LSD and speed threatened his girlfriend with a knife before terrorising an Angolan asylum seeker, a court heard.

Daniel Tams dragged his partner out on to the street in the early hours of the morning with the weapon in his hand, Newcastle crown court was told yesterday.

The 34-year-old began shouting before targeting the asylum seeker, who had looked out of the window of his house in Barrington Place, Newcastle, after being woken up by the noise at around 5am on March 17.

Tams, of Eldon Street East, Wallsend, repeatedly kicked the frightened man's door before running off when police were called.

He was sentenced to an 18-month drug treatment and testing order after previously pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance.